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- Farm to School program provides healthy snacks
In a California school district, students are eating healthy snacks such as apples and pears -- all grown locally and provided through the Farm to School program. At participating schools, a different fruit or vegetable is featured each month and made available in the cafeteria and provided on carts for students to take at recess. "The more we can show it to kids, the more we can expose them, the more likely they will be to make those choices on their own," said Nicole Meschi, the district's foodservices director. Santa Cruz Sentinel (Calif.)
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- Some Tenn. schools scale back holiday meals
A Tennessee school district will serve two holiday meals this year, but unlike previous years, the meals will be for students and staff only. In the past, the district invited parents and community members to participate. This year, because of tighter rules on foods served in the schools, the district has decided to scale back the program, says Carolyn Childs, the district's director of school nutrition. Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tenn.)
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- Pondering superfoods' role in a healthier diet, weight
Lucy Danziger, author of "The Drop 10 Diet," says dieters should focus on eating more superfoods to lose weight rather than obsessing over what they should not have. But while high-nutrient superfoods such as nuts, salmon, spinach and berries are healthy, registered dietitian Marisa Moore says that simply adding them to a diet does not guarantee weight loss or fat loss. CNN
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- Milk consumption in childhood has lasting health benefits
Children who drank more milk were more likely to walk faster and less likely to suffer balance problems in old age, compared with those who had little or no milk, Bristol University researchers reported in the journal Age and Ageing. "This is the first study to show positive associations of childhood milk intake with physical performance in old age," the researchers said. The Daily Mail (London)
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- Food labeling errors call for more prevention, experts say
Labeling errors are the No. 1 reason for food recalls in North America, and experts at the 2012 Pack Expo in Chicago said food processors should use a risk assessment program, such as the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points program, to prevent mistakes on high-speed packaging lines, rather than trying to catch problems after the fact. "Controls need to be in place at the packaging manufacturer and the food processor to prevent human errors and mistakes," said ConAgra Foods food safety and quality auditing principal Debra Krug-Reyes. Packaging World online
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